Ransomware has become a major concern for organizations; its prevalence has grown due to past successes achieved by threat actors. While each ransomware variant is different, we’ve seen some common tactics and trends used among the authors of the malware.

The L macro forces a string to be UNICODE when UNICODE is not the default for the application. For your wsprintf function, the strings must be UNICODE and you need to force them in an ASCII application to be UNICODE. That's what the L does.

The "L" macro is NOT a type conversion utility. It works only at COMPILE time to produce a UNICODE string constant.

If you need to convert from ASCII to UNICODE or back there are several alternatives. If you are using MFC, there are several macros defined in afxpriv.h that are convenient. In particular they are A2W or W2A.

Often, when implementing a feature, you won't know how certain events should be handled at the point where they occur and you'd rather defer to the user of your function or class. For example, a XML parser will extract a tag from the source code, wh…

This article shows you how to optimize memory allocations in C++ using placement new. Applicable especially to usecases dealing with creation of large number of objects.
A brief on problem:
Lets take example problem for simplicity:
- I have a G…

The viewer will be introduced to the member functions push_back and pop_back of the vector class. The video will teach the difference between the two as well as how to use each one along with its functionality.